recoilingly

adv

recoilingly

adv

Etymology From recoiling + -ly.

1

So as to recoil or shrink back.

  • 1865, Jane Thomas (née Pinhorn), Old Without Years That gangrene in the register of ill / From which men shrink with undisguised disgust, / According to the sternness of their hearts, / And from which women turn recoilingly […]

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